{"id":3100,"date":"2024-09-22T21:09:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T11:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2024-09-22T21:09:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T11:09:31","slug":"prunus-elvins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/?p=3100","title":{"rendered":"Prunus &#8216;Elvins&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Flowering bonsai can look spectacular. Species that produce a massed flower display can be even more spectacular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prunus &#8216;Elvins&#8217; originated in Victoria in the 1950s. It is believed to be a hybrid with Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum) as one of the parents which means it is quite hardy. Prunus &#8216;Elvins&#8217; flowers in early Spring and produces spectacular masses of white flowers that turn pink as they age. Flowers are on the previous year&#8217;s growth so they stand out well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_6039-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_6039-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_6039-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_6039-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_6039-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_6039-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been so impressed with the flowering display from Prunus &#8216;Elvins&#8217; that I&#8217;ve been propagating it as cuttings so Shibui Bonsai has good stocks of both small starters and a few larger field grown trunks as shown in the photo above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you fancy having a bonsai with the capability to produce flowers like that you can email neil@shibuibonsai.com.au to discuss price and availability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flowering bonsai can look spectacular. Species that produce a massed flower display can be even more spectacular. Prunus &#8216;Elvins&#8217; originated in Victoria in the 1950s. It is believed to be a hybrid with Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum) as one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/?p=3100\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,82,65],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bonsai","tag-elvins","tag-shibui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3102,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions\/3102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}